Kalyan Chakravarthi

Spearheaded PI Planning and Agile Release Train execution across compliance-heavy programs, coordinating cross-team dependencies and business priorities. Facilitated Scrum/SAFe ceremonies, coached Product Owners and teams on Lean-Agile principles, and established transparent reporting via JIRA, Confluence, and Azure DevOps.

Led Agile teams through Scrum ceremonies to drive iterative delivery and alignment. Managed project scope/timelines/risks, tracked progress using Jira and Azure DevOps metrics, refined backlogs with Product Owners, and supported SAFe implementation across distributed teams.

Facilitated Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to maintain continuous delivery. Partnered with Product Owners to manage and refine product backlogs, remove impediments, and coach Agile best practices to improve velocity and team collaboration.

Coached Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and leadership to lead enterprise-wide Agile transformations. Designed and facilitated Agile workshops and training to drive adoption of Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices, and mentored teams on Agile values and continuous improvement.

Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure team alignment and continuous delivery of features. Collaborated with Product Owners on backlog management and removed team impediments while coaching Agile best practices to improve velocity and collaboration.

Elicited and analyzed business requirements and translated them into actionable product backlogs using Agile user story mapping. Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, aligned teams on acceptance criteria, and removed impediments and dependencies to support iterative delivery and quality.

Bridged business and technology by gathering and translating requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria. Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, coached Agile principles, and supported data-driven sprint KPI tracking to improve delivery cadence and stakeholder satisfaction.

Translated business requirements into user stories and functional specifications aligned across stakeholders and development teams. Facilitated Agile ceremonies, prioritized backlogs and sprint goals, tracked progress with Agile metrics (velocity, burndown charts, cycle time), and supported impediment removal and continuous improvement.

Facilitated Agile ceremonies to support collaboration, transparency, and timely milestone delivery. Managed backlog prioritization and sprint goals while tracking velocity, burndown charts, and cycle time, and removed blockers to support continuous improvement.

Gathered and translated business requirements into user stories and functional specifications. Facilitated Agile ceremonies, supported backlog prioritization and sprint goals, and tracked Agile progress using velocity, burndown charts, and cycle time while resolving blockers.

Led requirements elicitation and translated business needs into user stories, process flows, and functional specifications. Conducted gap analysis and feasibility studies, supported backlog grooming and feature prioritization, and participated in validation activities including UAT and stakeholder demos.

Translated business requirements into test scenarios and traceability matrices and designed functional test cases for web and enterprise applications. Documented results, logged defects, supported defect triage, and participated in UAT and production validation to ensure reliable releases.

Assisted with gathering and documenting business requirements for internal tools and customer-facing applications. Supported data analysis and reporting using Excel and SQL, participated in UAT and functional testing, and created process flow diagrams and user stories to support Agile development.

Designed and executed functional test cases based on business requirements and user stories, performing end-to-end regression and system testing. Logged defects in JIRA and Bugzilla, maintained test documentation, and participated in requirement reviews and sprint planning with QA insights.

Activities and societies: Agile coaching & mentoring; Sprint planning/reviews/retrospectives; Product backlog refinement & grooming; SAFe implementation project & process management.

B.Sc. in Computer Science completed in 2008, including coursework focused on sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement, and a SAFe implementation project.